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Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Halverson, Richard

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Hough, Lynn Harold

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Giovanni, Nikki

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

Jones, Eli Stanley

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Baldwin, James

The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them.

Phillips, James

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Updike, John

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Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

Hawkins, O. S.

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled.

Zangwill, Israel

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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Butler, Samuel

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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.

Lennon, John

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.

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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Kipling, Rudyard

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I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

Lewis, C. S.

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Luther, Martin

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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Moody, Dwight L.

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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Moody, Dwight L.

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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Phillips, Wendell

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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Graham, Billy

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Brown, Olympia

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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Byron, Lord

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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

Cook, Robert A.

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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Moody, Dwight L.

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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

Weatherhead, Leslie

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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Allen, Fred A.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Hough, Lynn Harold

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Waller, Edmund

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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Henry, Patrick

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Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

King, Florence